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The Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival returns to Chicago this year with an even more diverse array of artists, featuring clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, the Idan Raichel Project and many others. World-music sensation Mika Karni launches the festival on Tuesday, May 6 with free concerts at Daley Plaza and the Chicago Cultural Center. -
RIot Fest Toronto lineup features The Flaming Lips, Death Cab For Cutie and more
Riot Fest, the tri-city music festival and exposition, has announced the official, big name stacked lineup for its Toronto edition. Today (May 6), over 50 bands were announced as a part of the Sept. 6 and 7 festival. -
Coldplay dedicated ‘Fix You’ to grieving Mick Jagger at their New York concert
Last night at their New York concert, Coldplay dedicated its slow-burning "Fix You" to Mick Jagger. Chris Martin told the crowd, "It's for Mick Jagger," before launching into the song about recovering from loss, Huffington Post reports. -
XXL magazine reveals 2014 Freshman Class: Chance The Rapper, Kevin Gates and Rich Homie Quan among others
XXL magazine announced its annual Freshman Class, a series meant to alert readers to on-the-verge rappers that could make a move to the big time during the respective year. The 2014 version is less informative forever. -
Ariana Grande and 'Problem' look to topple Pharrell Williams 'Happy' on downloads charts
We can all but guarantee that for the first time in 12 weeks, Pharrell Williams and "Happy" will not be the most downloaded track for the week. -
My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way confirms solo record deal
My Chemical Romance may be done but Gerard Way isn't, as he confirmed Monday. The fact that the vocalist launched his own website for the first time (gerardway.com) might have been a good hint that Way was reentering the game, but one of the first posts on that site was definitive in stating that Way had signed a solo record deal. -
Portishead and The Weeknd argue over alleged sample infringement on 'Kiss Land' track
Most sampling arguments occur when a performer takes another's work without asking their permission, resulting a lawsuit or similar. The most recent spat, involving alternative rock band Portishead and R&B experimenter The Weeknd, involves the latter allegedly asking the former if he could borrow a beat, which the former rejected, and the latter ended up running with anyhow. -
Country's largest vinyl manufacturer expanding operations to meet new demand
With vinyl sales increasing 32 percent last year with 6.1 million LPs sold, the supply hasn't quite met up with the demand for newly pressed vinyl. One problem is the production capacity of the plants that press them. Many plants have closed down and sold their old presses for parts, but one plant is making plans for expansion. Nashville's United Record pressing plant, made famous for pressing Jack White's vinyl efforts, is ready for more space and more presses. -
Music catalogue of Sixto 'Sugar Man' Rodriguez subject of lawsuit between music labels
A feel-good story has taken a sour turn after some legal shenanigans crept into the picture. A lawsuit was filed on Friday (May 2) with regards to the proper ownership of the music catalogue for Sixto Rodriguez, the Michigan rock musician Sixto Rodriguez, who was immortalized in the 2012 Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man. -
Michael Travis, costume designer for Liberace, dies at age 86
It's not often that the individuals who design costumes for professional musicians get the same kind of attention as the performers who wear them. Michael Travis, a longtime designer for Liberace, is an obvious exception. -
WATCH: Rick Ross, Lil Wayne drop cinematic 'Thug Cry' music video featuring Wood Hayes
Rick Ross wonders aloud if thugs cry in his Lil Wayne-featuring track "Thug Cry" from his new album Mastermind, and now the Maybach Music boss is exploring the emotional side of the hard knock life in the cinematic clip for the track, released today (May 5). -
MIXTAPE MONDAY: Check out new songs from Baths, Tigers Jaw, Sharon Van Etten, Kite Party and many more!
Some of our favorite artists released a bunch of great music this past week so we'd like to share our favorites with you in mixtape-form. Just like every week, we've compiled new songs from the previous week in case you missed them. This time around we have new tunes from Kite Party, Hooray For Earth, Kristeen Young and many more!
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